China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C) signed a legal and interoperability deal with Microsoft today as part of a parnership deal with Linux server technology.
A U.S. patent application filed this month by Microsoft updates an earlier holding concerning streaming data for faster computer startups.
In a detailed post-mortem, which included an apology, Amazon Web Services is giving reasons for last week's massive cloud outage that hit its Dublin data center.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/18/2011
Hewlett-Packard made several major announcements on Thursday, foremost that it is considering the spinoff or sale of its PC division.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/18/2011
Many of Microsoft's cloud service offerings, including Office 365, CRM Online and SkyDrive, have experienced major outages today.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/17/2011
Despite persistent concerns about security, developers increasingly prefer cloud-based development tooling, according to a survey by Evans Data Corp.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/17/2011
Amazon Web Services announced on Tuesday its new GovCloud service, which is geared solely at U.S. federal departments seeking a secure cloud solution that meets specific regulatory and compliance requirements.
Xsigo Systems lays claim to first fully virtualized infrastructure for cloud-optimized data centers.
F5 Networks has bought the intellectual property of Israel-based Crescendo Networks and will be hiring some of its engineering team.
Virtualization management suite broadens scope of platform support by including Microsoft's hypervisor in the mix.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/10/2011
In a move that strengthens its XenDesktop product against VMware View, Citrix announced its acquisition of the company that carved out market share with its vDesk solution set.
Version 2 of its NetWrix Change Reporter also adds real-time and snapshot reporting capabilities.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/10/2011
The OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment from Red Hat now supports Java Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6), the company announced on Wednesday. The support is the result of an integration with the open source JBoss Application Server 7 (AS7).
- By John K. Waters
- 08/10/2011
CumuLogic, a Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) startup founded by two former Sun Microsystems employees, has released the public beta of its flagship product of the same name.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/08/2011
Lightning strikes in Dublin, Ireland on Sunday resulted in brief outages at separate cloud datacenters run by Amazon and Microsoft.
VMware listened to the growing din around its vSphere 5 vRAM entitlements, and announced an increase of vRAM limits in a blog Wednesday.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/04/2011
Microsoft has continued interoperability support for Red Hat Linux operating systems running on its Hyper-V hypervisor.
Just over a month after the state of Wyoming wrapped up its wholesale move to Google's cloud, the company has finalized the migration of another public-sector client: the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 07/28/2011
In a move to extend their partnership on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform, Capgemini and Microsoft are planning to address the cloud computing needs of businesses in 22 countries using Azure.
A cloud-focused panel last week hosted by the Brookings Institution examined how developments in encryption technology could strengthen identity and access rights in public clouds.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 07/20/2011